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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

VICTORY: Senate Bill 283 DEFEATED - thanks to you!

By Daniel Ramos, Executive Director, One Colorado

Thanks to your calls, emails, and donations, the Colorado Senate JUST defeated Senate Bill 283
— a bill that would have allowed businesses to claim any belief,
including religious beliefs, give them the right to refuse to follow
non-discrimination laws they don’t like. Three Senate Republicans joined
all the Senate Democrats in defeating this harmful and discriminatory
bill.

It’s
shocking to realize that, in this day and age, we are still debating
whether it should be legal to discriminate against someone or turn them
away from a business simply because of who they are. Luckily, thanks to
the many senators who stood in opposition, we were able to defeat this
thinly veiled attempt to give businesses permission to ignore Colorado's
non-discrimination laws.